Co-creating transmedia communities

I am speaking at a conference later this week called Arresting Audiences all about identifying and reaching an ‘audience’. OK not a big fan of audience as the word here because we are paradoxically talking about the audience becoming ‘users and/or contributors’ but do you have other great examples? See below:

The focus of many DIY type film/TV conferences of course is getting eyeballs onto a linear proposition and my two talks are ‘Talking to an Audience’ and ‘Small Screens Big Connections’ – the later co-presenting with Winter Mead and the Glee SuperFan experience and also featured speaker is Buffy/Dollhouse/Galatica/Torchwood writer Jane Espensen

I have written a lot about the layering of real properties & artists into social story and crowd collab eg: The Good Bad and Ugly of Artists moving into Social Media but in preparing my talk/s (which will be on slideshare immediately before) I have the usual suspects to talk about (listed below) where moving the story into the social network, making the story an experience or making the narrative more collaborative have resulted in building loyalty around the property but wondered if any StoryLabers have some other great examples or works they have been involved in that had astounding results – particularly not the zillion dollar budget experiences…

Hiro’s blog, 360 & Evolutions – Heroes

Fanisodes – L Word

Community Created Content – Mob Mentality, The Mongoliad, Lost Zombies

The Cosmonaut – Crowd Funded

Margenes blog – Grey’s Anatomy

Crowd Created Content – Radiohead, Imogen Heap, Life in a Day (Ridley Scott)

Character tweets – Madmen, The Event

Crossing Jordan blog

Dwights blog -The Office US

Natalies blog – Monk

Tracey Fragments, Two Fist One Heart – MashUps

One Life to Live

Salt – Facebook Connect

Bluebird ARG – ABC

Find 815 – Lost

Community as Cast – Redd Inc, Forget the Rules

MyGeneration Synch Social TV – ABC US

Paranormal / Blair Witch – Social web enigma

Being Jo Sapien

Social narrative – Trent Reznor, Savage Country

Social good – Conspiracy for Good

& a zillion other forumlaic ARGs 🙂

After presentation – For reference here is the final presentation and a long post here